The Inauguration Day parade is going to sound a little different this year. Charlie Brotman, 89, of Washington D.C., has announced every president's Inauguration Day parade since Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term in 1956. But this year, things have changed. Brotman will not announce the 45th president's parade.
"I’m disappointed,” Brotman told The Washington Post. “I know I can do it. I know that I’ve done it many many times. They ask me every time and it’s such an honor.”
Instead, President-elect Donald Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee opted for Steve Ray, a D.C.-based freelance announcer and a Trump campaign volunteer.
“All of us think of Charlie as as much of the Washington landscape as any building,” Ray said. “I’m on top of the world. From my point of view, I am not filling his shoes, I’m not taking his place, I just happen to be the guy who’s next.”
The committee has dubbed Brotman “Announcer Chairman Emeritus” and promised him a prime seat during the parade and will honor him for his decades of service.

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The Inauguration Day parade is going to sound a little different this year. Charlie Brotman, 89, of Washington D.C., has announced every president's Inauguration Day parade since Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term in 1956. But this year, things have changed. Brotman will not announce the 45th president's parade.

“All of us think of Charlie as as much of the Washington landscape as any building,” Ray said. “I’m on top of the world. From my point of view, I am not filling his shoes, I’m not taking his place, I just happen to be the guy who’s next.”

The committee has dubbed Brotman “Announcer Chairman Emeritus” and promised him a prime seat during the parade and will honor him for his decades of service.